Meta Glasses, TikTok, Alpha Schools, and Why Time Flies
Weekly Review of News in Technology, UX and AI
Here’s the latest news, resources, and use cases from the world of product, UX, AI and technology. Let’s go:
📊 AI Entrepreneurship
👓 Meta Glasses
👨💻 AI Taking Jobs
🕺 TikTok
🎛️ OpenAI
👩🏫 Alpha Schools
🗨️ Teams
⏰ Why Time Flies
Podcast
Unlocking the Secrets of AI Entrepreneurship with Founder Andrew Amann
In this episode of Prodity: Product by Design, Kyle Evans interviews Andrew Amann, CEO and co-founder of NineTwoThree AI Studio. Andrew shares his extensive experience in entrepreneurship, product development, and the challenges of building AI products. We discuss the importance of understanding product-market fit, the patent process, and the journey of founding multiple companies. Andrew emphasizes the significance of focusing on a specific audience and the value of holistic entrepreneurship, where success is measured not just by financial gain but also by personal fulfillment and work-life balance. We also explore the future of AI, its applications across various industries, and the evolving landscape of technology.
News and Useful Reads
Meta’s big swings have never looked less serious
I always feel for presenters when live demos don’t go as planned. It’s happened to me, despite all my planning. But I’m not a billionaire and CEO of one of the largest tech companies.
At Meta Connect this week, CEO Mark Zuckerberg tried to show the future of computing: his long-held (and somewhat maligned) idea that you won’t look down at a phone so much as glance up through an invisible interface — and the future glitched out in real time.
AI CEO says technology ‘moving very quickly,’ could soon replace more jobs
Is AI coming for your job? Yes, it is. Will it do it worse than you and make everyone miserable? Almost certainly. Will that stop companies and executives from pursing AI? Nope.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei doubled down on his warning that artificial intelligence could soon cause mass unemployment, even as the technology’s current capabilities lag behind many predictions.
US and China agree to agree on a TikTok deal
No one is exactly sure what’s going on with a TikTok deal. But it seems like Larry Ellison and Oracle might end up owning a large part of TikTok US, increasing their hold on US media.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said a TikTok deal is expected to be signed "in the coming days," after President Donald Trump posted an update on Friday that did little to clarify where the deal currently stands following a call with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
OpenAI might be developing a smart speaker, glasses, voice recorder, and a pin
Hardware, unsurprisingly, may be the next frontier for AI companies like OpenAI. The first may be a smart speaker to challenge Amazon’s Alexa devices. As well as glasses and other wearables.
OpenAI has also considered building glasses, a digital voice recorder, and a wearable pin, according to sources speaking to The Information, with the first products being targeted for release in late 2026 or early 2027.
It’s the city’s new most expensive private school — and AI is the teacher
AI-driven schools are picking up popularity. I expect we’ll continue to see more of AI in education, just like Alpha School.
Alpha School’s promise is bold: Just two hours of academic work, with the rest of the day spent developing “life skills,” from building a sailboat to managing an AirBnB to traveling internationally.
Microsoft is filling Teams with AI agents
If you work in an office using Microsoft products, you probably noticed AI being put into everything this week. While I appreciate extra help in meetings, I’m also not convinced this will be helpful.
Facilitator agents will now sit in on Teams meetings, creating agendas, taking notes, and answering questions. Agents can also suggest time allotments for different meeting topics — letting participants know if they’re running over — and create documents and tasks.
Other Interesting Finds
Why Life Feels Faster the Older You Get
I feel like each month and year passes by more quickly than the last. This is especially acute this time of year, as the holiday season passes in a flash. But there are many reasons it feels like time passes by faster as we get older.
So what do Ornstein’s experiments have to do with time speeding up as we age? Well, when we’re young, our days are filled with first-time experiences rife with complex and often novel information that our brains work hard to process. There are countless new lessons to learn, new locations to explore, and new sensations to feel. In the context of Ornstein’s experiments, these are akin to seeing the more complex diagrams or hearing those more detailed audio files.